This was a series of three races. The wind most of the time except the last one was under 2 knots.
The first race I tacked the boat to starboard soon before the start and it put us behind the line. I saw Perseverance tacked to port to get the left side of the line and he put him self way ahead of the fleet. We managed to get only a 6 out of 7th because we could not just get the wind.
The second race we were over early. I should of jibed the boat when over early to come back on port to go in the other direction. By dipping and staying on starboard all we did was kept us under 2 other boats. The only uplifting part of the race was on the last downwind leg we kept way to the lake side of the course were there was more wind and we managed to carry it in a half circle course to finish ahead of Jayhawker who was stuck in a hole in the middle of the course.
The third race we had a reasonably good start on the committee boat side of the line. We had agreed before hand that we would go to the right side of the course to get lift off the shore. We tacked under two boats to our right and went up that side. When all the other boats tacked back on port we were ahead of all of them. We should of covered Perseverance since he was the lead boat but did not because it was decided that we would cover the left boats. When we tacked back Perseverance managed to tack ahead of us where we were the second to round. Capers tacked back on starboard with us but we managed to get a little ahead of them to force them back. The next two legs we kept our position behind the red boat. On the last downwind leg we got behind Perseverence maybe a 1000 yards before the finish. He came up in anticipation of us rolling him. I saw that he was nearly parallel to the line and I ducked him and we jibed the main. We managed to finish in first by a few feet.
Results: 1st race 6 out of 7
2nd race 6 out of 7
3rd race 1 out of 7
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